County Board Approves Purchase of New Server

On Tuesday, the Watonwan County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of a new server for the Sheriff’s Department.

The new server, new storage space, and a three-year maintenence agreement cost $11,442. The purchase is from Dell, and it was already in the sheriff’s department’s budget.

Currently, the department has one server doing everything, and “that server is getting overused, and we’re running out of storage,” said Information Services Director Greg Walsh. He proposed the new server to take the weight off the current server, and life expectancy for a server is roughly five years.

For the rest of this story, including details on road construction projects and an employee departing the public works department, please see the July 3 print edition of the St. James Plaindealer.